A group of giotered gazelles were captured on camera foraging in Bohu County of northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region on Saturday.

The endangered animal under second-class state protection has adapted to the deserts and semi-deserts in northwest China and other regions in central Asia. But their population has declined dramatically by about 50 percent due to the building of fences from 2003 to 2012.

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(All photos by Nian Lei)

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